Jamie's glasses update

I spent last night out in Euless, so this morning I drove up the extra bit to Southlake and took Jamie's glasses in just after they opened.

The good news is, yes, they'll still cover fixing them. The bad news is, the guy had been doing some calling around, and he can't get that frame any more. (Sounds to me as if he was anticipating that we'd get to this stage fairly soon, and was preparing ahead. This is good)

So, we're going to have to pick out a new set of frames for him. Which means I need to go back there *with* him. Hopefully this morning, as it's going to be a while before they're ready anyway. The impressive thing is this means we're going to get a whole new pair of glasses, new frames and lenses, for no charge.

And yes, for all the people who keep telling me I should have a better alternative, I did talk to the guy about it. He says we can try him in plastic, but he sounded pretty dubious about it. He says if Jamie breaks these, he'll break those. We talked about sport goggles. He said he didn't think he had any small enough for Jamie, but we can try them on him. He said the problem with those is that they're usually too uncomfortable for long-term wear. And yeah, if they're uncomfortable Jamie's not going to keep them on.

So we'll see what we get.

new glasses ordered

So we did get up to the optician's in Southlake with Jamie before they closed at noon. We tried a few pairs of glasses on him. My, that's a different experience now - the first time, I was having to hold him and pin down his arms while the lady tried to put glasses on him and hold the mirror so I might see. This time he gave no objections and left the glasses on. Wow.

We settled on a sturdy plastic pair this time. The guy says certainly they won't be Jamie-proof either, but we'll see if that does any better. He figured Jamie would manage to break the twist-metal ones. These don't have separate nose pads, so that's one less thing for him to bend or break. They're brown, with little subtle yellow duck outlines. I liked him in blue, but better to go with something they had on hand, and the brown looked good on him too. They'll have to make new lenses for them, and once again they'll be special ordering those, first thing Monday. So he should have glasses again on Tuesday or Wednesday hopefully.

Then I shall have to update this icon